Zhihong Zhu received the Ph.D. degree in optical engineering from the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT)in 2007. He is currently a full professor with the College of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, NUDT . His research fields include light-matter interactions inartificial nanostructures, graphene -related two -dimensional materials and devices, integrated optoelectronic chips and so on .He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers in top journals such as Nature materials, Nature Communication, ACS Nano, Small, Optics letters, Optics express etc.

Title of Talk : Scalar Topological Photonic Nested Meta-Crystals and Skyrmion Surface States in the Light Cone Continuum